Ancient hunter-gatherers from Europe may have voyaged across the Mediterranean to Northern Africa around 8,500 years ago, new research suggests. Ancient DNA collected from the remains of Stone Age ...

For many decades, textbooks taught that hippos vanished from the center of Europe upon the onset of the Ice Age. However, a new study is rewriting that history. Utilizing ancient DNA and reliable ...

Scientific studies aimed at unlocking the genetic code of all humans have had problems with their data: it was mostly collected from people with “European” heritage, leaving wide gaps in the study of ...

Western European hunter-gatherer DNA (WHG) has a link to Italians who live to be at least a hundred. While Italians have more ancient DNA than just WHG, it is the only component of their DNA that has ...

University of Ferrara researchers in Italy have examined how European skin, eye and hair pigmentation evolved over the past 45,000 years. Findings indicate that lighter pigmentation traits emerged ...